Deinstitutionalizing long-term care
Subtitle: making legal strides, avoiding policy errors
By: Marshall B. Kapp
Contributors: Kapp, Marshall B
Series: Ethics, law, and aging review -- v. 11
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: People with mental disabilities -- United States; Mental health laws -- United States; People with mental disabilities -- Long-term care -- Government policy -- United States; People with mental disabilities -- Long-term care -- Law and legislation -- United States; Community mental health services -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Community-based alternatives for older adults with serious mental illness ; the Olmstead decision and deinstitutionalization of nursing homes / Setphen J. Bartels and Aricca D. Van Citters; title: Rebalancing state long-term care systems / Robert L. Mollica and Susan C. Reinhard; title: The realpolitik of deinstitutionalizing long-term care : Olmstead meets reality / Roland Hornbostel; title: Guilty of mental illness : what the ADA says about the use of prisons as long-term-care facilities for people with psychiatric disabilities / Pamela S. Cohen; title: When consumer-directed alternatives to nursing homes fail : assigning legal and ethical responsibility in worst-case situations / Marshall B. Kapp; title: The ethics of Medicare privatization / Larry Polivka; title: Cross-cultural aspects of geriatric decision-making capacity / Fred A. Kobylarz, John Heath, and Jeffrey Spike